A new report from Research & Markets forecasts that the big data and data analytics industry will continue to grow with increased use from the Department of Homeland Security, public safety organizations and intelligence agencies.

The “Big Data & Data Analytics, Homeland Security & Public Safety: Global Market 2017-2022” report predicts that the big data and data analytics industry will reach $11 billion in revenue by 2022. The report forecasts a seven-year compound annual growth rate of 17.5 percent from 2015 to 2022, according to Business Wire.

With an increasingly digital world, the use of big data within the public safety and intelligence spheres has been on the rise, creating opportunities for industry growth. From data collection and storage to intelligence processing, exploitation, dissemination and analysis.

The government’s largest contracts slated for release this fiscal year will be significantly larger than previous years, according to a new analysis.

The top 20 contract opportunities represent a combined potential business worth $160 billion over the contracts’ lifetime, or a 74 percent increase over the $92 billion value of last year’s top contracts, according to a new report by market research firm Deltek.

Request for proposals are expected to start rolling out in January, which should provide some breathing room for agencies to recover from the partial shutdown, said Jennifer Sakole, principal analyst for federal information services at Deltek. Whether contracts will be immune to impacts of the shutdown is unclear, but so far agencies haven’t announced plans to cancel or postpone these contracts.